Meerdere midden-oosterse onderzee internetkabels gebroken

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - - Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday.

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The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Dubai, between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, according to its owner FLAG Telecom, part of India's Reliance Communications.

The company said on its website that a repair ship had been notified and was expected to arrive at the site in the next few days.

The cause of the latest cable damage was not immediately known.

Flag Telecom owns another undersea cable which was damaged off Egypt on Wednesday in the Mediterranean. Indian media reports have attributed that damage to a ship's anchor which dropped on the cable.

On the same day in Kuwait, the government reported two cables damaged by "weather conditions and maritime traffic."

The cable damage has left India's vital outsourcing industry grappling with major communications disruptions and businesses saying they could take up to two weeks to return to normal.

It has also disrupted Internet service across the Middle East and other parts of South Asia.

A repair ship was expected to arrive by next Tuesday to restore the FLAG Telecom cable that was damaged off Egypt, the company said.

Smaller Indian firms will be harder hit as they depend on a single service provider, said R.S Perhar, secretary of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India (ISPAI).

"But traffic has already started moving after being re-routed," Perhar said.

Around 90 percent of the services were expected to be restored by Sunday, the ISPAI said.

India's 11-billion-dollar outsourcing industry is made up of 1,250 firms that deliver services ranging from answering customer queries to processing credit card and mortgage applications.

The industry employs 700,000 people, serving clients mainly in the United States and Europe that sought to cut costs by farming out work to the country.

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Op zondag 3 februari 2008 17:11 schreef remlof het volgende:
Als er opzet in het spel is vraag ik me af of India het doelwit is, lijkt me meer voor de hand liggen dat bepaalde krachten de stroom van vrije informatie naar het middenoosten willen onderbreken. Dat de Indiaanse ICT sector er onder lijdt is dan min of meer "colleteral damage".

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Op zondag 3 februari 2008 17:36 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Niet alleen naar, maar ook vanuit het Midden Oosten.. En kijk eens welk land 100% afgesloten is nu:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

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Op zondag 3 februari 2008 17:56 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Hoi
Al drie onderzeese internet-kabels stuk...

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Op zondag 3 februari 2008 18:06 schreef Sm0keZ het volgende:
Overigens, als je even verder kijkt bij internettraphicreport, zie je dat ook Florida (US), Zuid Afrika en Colombia de verbinding kwijt zijn.

Ik vraag me toch werkelijk af wat hier gebeurt, die plaatsen liggen nou niet echt bepaald vlakbij Iran.